Post By: Zac

Google have released a beta version of their new search engine which is supposed to be faster and more accurate than the current model. Coined by industry insiders as Caffeine, Google engineers claim the back end changes are, “the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, […]

New internet start up – Yasni believes it has identified a viable niche in the search market – people. Yasni collects all publicly available information related to the search term i.e. an individual’s name, by spidering web sites, social and business networking profiles such as Facebook and Linked In, forums, blogs, video content and news […]

When I first heard that Microsoft was yet again attempting to launch a search service to rival Google, my initial reaction was ‘why bother?’ Google dominate search, always have and probably always will, and they deserve it. They’ve earned it over the last 10 years through developing increasingly complex algorithms and adapting the search engine […]

Google has come under fire again with the American Department of Justice after alleged anti-competitive behaviour, this time in the world of literature. At the end of October last year, Google brokered a deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers as part of the $125 million Google Book Search settlement, which […]

Google has come under fire again with the American Department of Justice after alleged anti-competitive behaviour, this time in the world of literature. At the end of October last year, Google brokered a deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers as part of the $125 million Google Book Search settlement, which […]

On the 8th of May last year, Kelvin wrote a post on the top 25 Twitterers. Now one year on, we return to see how they’re doing now. Of course none of these numbers are a scratch on Stephen Fry’s 392, 822 followers.

It’s still making the headlines and we can’t help but add fuel to the 140 character fire. When Twitter bought the search engine Summize back in July last year the Twitterverse was made infinitely more usable for everyone, but it still didn’t solve Twitters business model issue – the fact that they don’t have one. […]

Today the good people at Wired Sussex are putting on their annual careers and skills fair at the Brighton Corn Exchange from 12pm – 8pm. This is well worth attending for anyone looking to further their digital media career, improve their contact list or if you just want to wander around and wet your appetite. […]

Yesterday at the SES Conference in London Amanda Watlington and Joseph Morin discussed the best practices for optimising your video content. Videos can create a lot of interest, gain inbound and outbound links and generate website traffic, however search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN are not yet able to read video content so […]

The good guys and girl at Use8 put on this social media shindig down at the Albion Hotel on Thursday 12th February. I’ve been attending their conferences for nearly a year now and they improve every time, Gareth was attending the event for the first time and was inspired to attend further conferences by Use […]